Author: Simon Winchester

A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter New York Times ...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters...

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-ol...

'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Di...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history o...

Martin Parr, one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photographic agency has undertaken a...

From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centu...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for i...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpec...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the worlds largest body of water, and in matters e...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Unexpected stories from unexpected places.Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an...

Skulls is a beautiful spellbinding exploration of more than 300 different animal skulls--amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles-written by ...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the worlds largest body of water, and in matters e...

The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shiftin...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world''s largest body of water, and - in matter...